This scene depicts two women, a middle-aged daughter along with her elderly mother, as they drive to a convalescent hospital for the first time. The opening measures present a texture that is meant to give the impression that the scene is taking place in a car as it starts, stops, and steers its way through traffic; this texture recurs throughout the piece. The younger woman knows that she will be leaving the rest home without her mother, and that for all intents and purposes, this will be her older counterpart’s “last stop” before she must eventually succumb to death.